More Like Disney World

Once the cousins arrived, the real party began. Balo and Celia were immediately close, as always, which is super fun. They loved their matching monorail shirts. We all waited for the bus at our Disney hotel house and were off to breakfast at Ohana at the Polynesian Resort.

Breakfast was all you can eat with Mickey and Stitch waffles, Hawaiian juice, and pineapple as the highlights. The mound of food they gave us at the kids' table was rather larger than we really needed.

It was a character breakfast and Pluto was up first. The kids were a bit nervous, but enjoying themselves.

Everyone was a big fan of Mickey. Except Caleb. He was nervous about all the characters. Tom captured Mickey with Elena with everyone taking phone pictures. Classic.

Lilo came over and actually spent a little time trying to get Caleb to warm up. He wasn't totally opposed to the game of peek-a-boo she instigated. 

Our family friends, Cal and Eric, joined us for the breakfast and we all got a giant picture with Stitch.

Since the Stitch picture was a bit crazy, we got a nice picture when we arrived at Magic Kingdom to show off all of our unique Disney shirts (Tom and I designed them as Christmas presents for the family). 

Here are the kids on the monorail in their monorail shirts. Last time we were at DisneyWorld, Balo and Celia has a schtick where they named the buses Jonorails and the boats Bonorails. Thus their shirts were born.

We hit up the speedway. This is the last trip we'll be able to take advantage of child swap on all the rides. It's perfect because each baby gets a ticket for 3 people to ride in the fast pass line. So we would get two of those, and the adults would take turns with the babies, and then the adults could take turns taking the 4 big kids on all the rides twice in a row. The big kids really didn't know how good they had it this trip. On every ride, before it was even over, Sabrina would say "I want to go on this ride again!"

Of course we went on It's A Small World. And Caleb loved it. He spent the entire ride pointing and "ooing" at everything.

I took pictures while Billy and Tom took a turn on the Barnstormer--one of the kids' favorites--with the big kids.

If you look closely, I caught Tom and Billy as they blasted through the Barnstormer sign. The other kids were too short to capture.

This picture should be on a Disney brochure. Big Thunder Mountain and a Mickey balloon are in the background. We're all wearing Disney shirts, and there are some ducks that Caleb is enjoying. Isn't Disney magical?

Back at our hotel/house, we tried to take pictures of the kiddos on the stairs. These are the best we could do:

Jammie time on the couch was always fun. We never got out of the house before 9:30 or 10, so the kids got plenty of quality time together.

Here are the kids on the Jonorail on the way to EPCOT.

We visited Crush, Nemo, and, of course, Bruce.

Elena and Caleb slept in strollers by Mater while the big kids played on the Cars playground.

Elsa and Anna made out of plants were big hits with the girls. And Tom and Caleb took a standard EPCOT ball picture. 

And there was more fun still to come....